Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Poland. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live. About The Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experience of tomorrow. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure (compute, networking, CI/CD, observability)Drive developer experience improvements — reducing friction, removing toil, and making the "paved path" the easy pathLead triage on production issues: dig into logs, write scripts to analyze data when needed, and drive incidents to resolutionShape and advance our infrastructure architecture with a bias toward simplicity, scalability, and ease of use for the engineers building on itUse AI tools deliberately and effectively as a force multiplier in your own work, and help others on the team do the samePartner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into infrastructure decisions Requirements Experience managing a Kubernetes (or similar) cluster — not just deploying applications onto one as a runtime. You should have configured, operated, or maintained a cluster yourself (node pools, upgrades, scaling, networking, etc.)Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or an equivalent like Pulumi/CloudFormation) — you've written and maintained IaC yourselfSolid engineering fundamentals and a real point of view on what makes infrastructure and architecture simple, scalable, and maintainable — and the judgment to make good trade-offsComfort owning production triage: reading logs, forming hypotheses, writing a script when that's the fastest path to an answer, and driving to root cause under some pressureCombination of infrastructure/DevOps and Python/software engineering skillsetsClear, effective communicator, in writing and out loud — able to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-infra stakeholdersGenuinely AI-forward: you already use AI tools to move faster and better, not just because it's expectedA collaborative partner to the broader engineering org — this role succeeds by making other engineers more effective, not by working in isolation Desirable Experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly GKE Autopilot or a comparable managed Kubernetes environmentExperience with gRPC, Postgres at scale, or service-oriented architecturesExperience scaling infrastructure or DX tooling at a growth-stage companyExperience in a regulated environment (HIPAA or similar)Prior ownership of a paved-path or internal platform initiative What’s in it for you? Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environmentGrowth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertiseTailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certificationsEndless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologiesFlexibility: Enjoy flexibility – full remote working possibilitiesCare: We've got you covered with company-paid premium medical package through LuxmedBenefits: Access the MyBenefit cafeteria platform, allowing you to choose perks that best suit your lifestyle and needs About Us At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. With delivery centers in Wrocław and Gdańsk, our 300+ professionals in Poland drive forward-thinking solutions for global clients. Join a community where collaboration sparks innovation—and your impact reaches millions. Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum! Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.